From the Living collection

Noah's Lament

Brian Baruch

dogged defiance agitates the scourge purging betrayals of days sold and ignored

sequestering stares of passers by and kin oblivious to the stakes of assaulting to win

behind the numbing walls where innocence shrieks the consuming purge from Divinity's reach

sacked and traded to propriety's bent their pilot's sight has long since spent

festering in agita ripened for din waves consuming the chorus of sin

washing away a somber ending ills rented and kept for carnivorous trending

turned asunder all transparent are we not the same? a dove apparent

rivals silenced in coursing accord pooling the rue that we ignored

tumbled and torn to render anew vertigo skies order in blue

standing hollowed empty purview I surrender fully to hopes undue

vanquish my claim this sanctimonious shill unburden my name untether my will

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